The Arts Research Center (ARC) at UC Berkeley is a think tank for the arts, an interdisciplinary space that brings people together—from across the university and beyond the university, from across the arts and beyond the arts—for unexpected conversations, collaborations and community-building. ARC serves as an incubator, fostering individual and collaborative research in the arts, supporting both published scholarship and new creative activity; a nexus, sponsoring a broad range of programs that advance interdisciplinary arts research (including conferences and symposia, fellowships for faculty and students, curriculum development grants, faculty seminars and salons, online discussion forums, and artists’ residencies); and an advocate, championing the centrality of the arts at our public university and in public life. ARC promotes the inclusion and support of the arts and creativity in a broad range of campus and community initiatives. For more information, please visit us online.